Index
The tray
Nine thin sections, each 30 µm thick on a 27 × 46 mm glass slide. Hover a name to put it under the lamp; open it to use the microscope.
- 01Shap granitePorphyritic graniteShap, CumbriaEarly Devonian
- 02Whin Sill doleriteQuartz doleriteSteel Rigg, NorthumberlandLate Carboniferous
- 03Rùm peridotiteOlivine cumulate (peridotite)Hallival, Isle of RùmPalaeocene
- 04Carrara marbleCalcite marbleApuan Alps, TuscanyJurassic limestone
- 05Portland ooliteOolitic limestoneIsle of Portland, DorsetLate Jurassic
- 06Glen Clova garnet schistGarnet–mica schistGlen Clova, AngusNeoproterozoic sediments
- 07Lipari obsidianSpherulitic obsidianRocche Rosse, Lipari, Aeolian IslandsErupted in the 13th century AD
- 08Millstone GritCoarse feldspathic sandstoneStanage Edge, Peak DistrictCarboniferous (Namurian)
- 09Allende meteoriteCarbonaceous chondrite (CV3)Fell at Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, 8 February 19694